This volume investigates educational inequalities among children of Turkish immigrants in Austria, France, and Sweden. One of the largest immigrant groups in these countries, Turks nonetheless face ...discrimination and limited opportunities, and this study shows how those problems play out in education. One of its key findings is that systems that provide more favorable institutional arrangements lead to greater economic mobility in the second generation.
The integration of immigrants into a larger society begins at the local level. Turkish Berlin reveals how integration has been experienced by second-generation Turkish immigrant women in two ...neighborhoods in Berlin, Germany. While the neighborhoods are similar demographically, the lived experience of the residents is surprisingly different. Informed by first-person interviews with both public officials and immigrants, Annika Marlen Hinze makes clear that local integration policies-often created by officials who have little or no contact with immigrants-have significant effects on the assimilation of outsiders into a community and a society. Focusing on the Turkish neighborhoods of Kreuzberg and Neukölln, Hinze shows how a combination of local policy making and grassroots organizing have contributed to one neighborhood earning a reputation as a hip, multicultural success story and the other as a rougher neighborhood featuring problem schools and high rates of unemployment. Aided by her interviews, she describes how policy makers draw from their imaginations of urban space, immigrants, and integration to develop policies that do not always take social realities into consideration. She offers useful examples of how official policies can actually exacerbate the problems they are trying to help solve and demonstrates that a powerful history of grassroots organizing and resistance can have an equally strong impact on political outcomes. Employing spatial theory as a tool for understanding the complex processes of integration, Hinze asks two related questions: How do immigrants perceive themselves and their experiences in a new culture? And how are immigrants conceived of by politicians and policy makers? Although her research highlights the German-Turk experience in Berlin, her answers have implications that resonate far beyond the city's limits.
Iran is among the countries with the highest Turkic population. The fact that the country was ruled by the Turkic states for centuries and its location have enabled many important works in the Turkic ...world to emerge from these lands. The dense Turkic population living in the Iran and the importance of the Iranian geography in the Turkic history have attracted the attention of many researchers. Consisting of different groups of Turks, the Iranian Turks have been the subject of many studies. Especially, studies on the Iranian Turks have increased recently. In this study, the works written about the Turks of Iran and their languages are included. The examined studies were divided into two groups; sources that generally take all the Turkic groups in Iran, regardless of any dialect, were placed in the first group and in the second group, the sources examining the Turkic dialects in the Iran were discussed under the titles Azerbaijan Turks, Turkmen Turks, Qashqai Turks, Khalaj Turks and Khorasan Turks. Each title was classified under three separate subtitles as books, articles and theses. The literature of Iranian Turkic dialects were excluded from the subject of this article. In this paper, a general bibliography of books, papers, and thesis in Iran and Turkey was tried to be formed in a historical order.
This book compares how different Islamic communities assert their authority to represent "True Islam" for Muslims living in Europe and how they cope with challenges from rivals with different ...interpretations and fields of activism. It focuses on five Islamic communities active among Muslims originating from Turkey that represent the spectrum from moderate to revolutionary Islamic opinions: representatives of "official Islam" (Diyanet), political Islamists (Milli Görü?), a mystical Sufi order (Süleymanl?), Turkish civil Islam (Gülen) and a movement seeking an Islamic revolution in Turkey (Kaplan). The research included twelve months of intensive ethnographic fieldwork among Turkish Muslims in Germany and the Netherlands.
On April 23, 2003, to the surprise of much of the world, the ceasefire line that divides Cyprus opened. The line had partitioned the island since 1974, and so international media heralded the opening ...of the checkpoints as a historic event that echoed the fall of the Berlin Wall. As in the moment of the Wall's collapse, cameras captured the rush of Cypriots across the border to visit homes unwillingly abandoned three decades earlier. It was a euphoric moment, and one that led to expectations of reunification. But within a year Greek Cypriots overwhelmingly rejected at referendum a United Nations plan to reunite the island, despite their Turkish compatriots' support for the plan. InThe Past in Pieces, anthropologist Rebecca Bryant explores why the momentous event of the opening has not led Cyprus any closer to reunification, and indeed in many ways has driven the two communities of the island further apart. This chronicle of the "new Cyprus" tells the story of the opening through the voices and lives of the people of one town that has experienced conflict. Over the course of two years, Bryant studied a formerly mixed town in northern Cyprus in order to understand both experiences of life together before conflict and the ways in which the dissolution of that shared life is remembered today. Tales of violation and loss return from the past to shape meanings of the opening in daily life, redefining the ways in which Cypriots describe their own senses of belonging and expectations of the political future. By examining the ways the past is rewritten in the present, Bryant shows how even a momentous opening may lead not to reconciliation but instead to the discovery of new borders that may, in fact, be the real ones.
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Drawing on a broad range of sources in Ottoman Turkish and Arabic this book offers a new interpretation of late Ottoman imperial rule in Yemen and situates the Ottoman Empire among competing imperial ...powers in the long nineteenth century.
In 1876, a recently dethroned sultan, Abdülaziz, was found dead in his cham- bers, the veins in hisarm slashed. Five years later, a group of Ottoman senior officials stood a criminal trial and ...werefound guilty for complicity in his murder. Among the defendants was the world-famousstatesman former Grand Vizier and reformer Ahmed Midhat Pasa, a political foe of the autocraticsultan Abdülhamit II, who succeeded Abdülaziz and ruled the empire for thirty-three years.The alleged murder of the former sultan and the trial that ensued were political dramas thatcaptivated audiences both domestically and internationally. The high-profile personalitiesinvolved, the international politics at stake, and the intense newspaper coverage all renderedthe trial an historic event, but the question of whether the sultan was murdered or committedsuicide re- mains a mystery that continues to be relevant in Turkey today. Drawing upon a widerange of narrative and archival sources, Rubin explores the famous yet understudied trial and itsrepresentations in contemporary public discourse and subsequent historiography. Through thereconstruction and analysis of various aspects of the trial, Rubin identifies the emergence of anew culture of legalism that sustained the first modern political trial in the history of the Middle East.
This book explores the role of citizenship in the migration of Turks to the United States. Sebahattin Ziyanak and Bilal Sert discuss identity formation across generations among Turkish Americans and ...analyze the important differences between first and second generation Turkish Americans.
This volume investigates educational inequalities among children of Turkish immigrants in Austria, France, and Sweden. One of the largest immigrant groups in these countries, Turks nonetheless face ...discrimination and limited opportunities, and this study shows how those problems play out in education. One of its key findings is that systems that provide more favorable institutional arrangements lead to greater economic mobility in the second generation.
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